Word: solarized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Early Bird's curved sides are covered with 6,000 solar cells to supply electric power, and the satellite spins like a gyroscope to keep stabilized. One short antenna receives radio signals from the earth. They are fed to a transponder which amplifies them and then transmits them back to earth. Much of the transmitted energy is lost in space, but enough reaches the earth to be picked up by powerful receiving stations in the U.S. and Europe and amplified once more before being transmitted to home receivers...
Science these days seems all but omnipotent. Its practitioners build nuclear weapons powerful enough to pulverize much of the world; they put together space vehicles with which man can probe deep into the solar system and beyond. The time seems close when experimenters may actually create life in the laboratory. Small wonder, says Dr. Vannevar Bush, 75, honorary board chairman of M.I.T., that to the general public, scientists are "supermen" who "can do anything, given enough money...
...building a pilot plant to tap power and extract chemicals from the large reservoir of hot brine under the Salton Sea in California's Imperial Valley. It is also the only company that extracts salt by all three existing production methods: dry mining, brine pumping and solar evaporation of salt water...
Early Bird gets its electric power from 6,000 solar cells; its orbit is so far from the earth that the earth's shadow seldom forces it to depend on storage batteries. Its electronic equipment will pick up radio-telephone and TV signals from earth, amplify them and transmit them back to earth far beyond their normal range...
...that bygone era when Newton could conceive of the solar system as a kind of eternal clockwork, and most people thought of the social system in much the same terms, a favorite toy for grownups was the sort of music box in which tiny lords and ladies, shepherds and shepherdesses perform an elaborate, unchanging dance. Portuguese Author Monteiro has constructed his odd novella of life in modern Lisbon like one of those antique music boxes. The effect is quietly damning. The figures are a rich man, Gonçalo, his empty-headed wife, their idealistic young...